On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Roger Weeks wrote:
> Why? Because I want to know exactly how the binary was built. I want to know
> that it's specifically compiled for my particular machine. I've had too many
> weird problems with RPM packages - and DEB packages for that matter - that
> proclaimed themselves to be i586 or i686 when in fact they were i386.
If your x86-based machine is having "weird problems" other than simply
running a couple % slower on i386-compiled code, you have a lot more worries
than just software or compilers. <evil grin>
(I'm not playing devil's advocate, just the part of pedant wrt the --
perhaps unintended -- inference that i386-compatible binaries have problems
on newer x86 architectures. They shouldn't; rather, they just run a
fraction slower, because the better extended opcodes introduced in the 486
and later lines are not being used.)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv at duh.org> <tv at pobox.com> <todd at vierling.name>